Wastewater Epidemiology
We’re working with the San Antonio River Authority to analyze wastewater samples for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 genetic signature.
Published Work:
Preprint: “Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater during New York City’s second wave of COVID-19: Sewershed-level trends and relationships to publicly available clinical testing data” (February 9, 2022)
Scientists detect novel SARS-CoV-2 variants in NYC wastewater (February 3, 2022)
Tracking cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages detected in NYC wastewater (February 3, 2022)
“Protocol for safe, affordable, and reproducible isolation and quantitation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from wastewater” (September 23, 2021)
In the Media:
“Poop Sleuths: Why Researchers Are Tracking Coronavirus in Wastewater” by Jennifer Walker-Journey of How Stuff Works (February 16, 2022)
This Week in Virology (TWiV) Episode 864: A game of thrones (February 10, 2022)
“Mystery lineages of coronavirus are popping up in NYC sewage” by Stephanie Pappas of livescience.com
“MU scientist helps detect novel SARS-CoV-2 variants in NYC wastewater” by Eric Stann of Show Me Mizzou (February 3, 2022)
“In New York City Sewage, a Mysterious Coronavirus Signal” by Emil Anthes of the New York Times (February 3, 2022)
“SA Smart Chats: Dr. Davida Smyth (Texas A&M University in San Antonio)” (January 26, 2022)
“Omicron was probably in N.Y.C. well before the first U.S. case was detected, wastewater data suggest” by Emily Anthes of the New York Times (January 20, 2022)
This Week in Virology (TWiV) Episode 737: SARS-CoV-2 in NYC wastewater (April 1, 2021)
“Mutants, variants and vaccines: The twists and turns in the continually evolving COVID-19 pandemic” published on qiagen.com